It's the idea of companies externalizing costs onto their labor force, because they refuse to recognize their labor force as "workers".
They avoid responsibility to communities they generate profits in, by exporting negative externalizes at a much higher level than traditional businesses.
Also, I don't think Uber drivers are 'unskilled'. The lowest rung is filtered out by not being able to bring their own $20000 vehicle to participate.
Merely owning a vehicle is an odd definition of skilled labor. They actually do a lot of community engagement (Uber now has huge operations teams all over the world) so that point is either ignorant or outdated. And you seem to object to the idea of independent contractors entirely (unless you can elaborate further), which is your right, but not really a unique strike against Uber.
> Merely owning a vehicle is an odd definition of skilled labor.
Having witnessed countless uber/lyft drivers do their thing I have to agree with your "skilled" assessment.
More on point -- my main objection is they are paying basically at cost pricing to the "driver-partners" when you add up all the costs. Basically, though many will disagree, all they're doing is taking the equity out of their vehicle now instead of at resale time.
They avoid responsibility to communities they generate profits in, by exporting negative externalizes at a much higher level than traditional businesses.
Also, I don't think Uber drivers are 'unskilled'. The lowest rung is filtered out by not being able to bring their own $20000 vehicle to participate.